It looks stunning throughout June and July when planted beside lavender, purple sage, Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens' as well as the exuberant sulphuryellow blooms of Alchemilla mollis or lady's mantle.

Good plant partners include clematis, which can climb through the roses and also enjoy the same conditions and similar feeds, while in mixed borders soften roses with airy specimens such as catmint or lavender, which look amazing beneath creamy rose flowers, or mix it up with lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis) and perennial geraniums.

Having just spent the best part of an afternoon evicting several hundred tiny, self-seeded lady's mantle plantlets from a path, I am reminded of the propensity some plants have for reproduction, given the right conditions.

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